Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:41:14 +0000 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Thank you! Message-ID: <20021205014114.GA19447@convex.org.uk> References: <20021204014940 DOT ZFVV24110 DOT mtiwmhc13 DOT worldnet DOT att DOT net AT mtiwebc19> <20021204025240 DOT GB20375 AT redhat DOT com> <4 DOT 3 DOT 2 DOT 7 DOT 2 DOT 20021204152407 DOT 0232e768 AT dogwood DOT cisco DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021204152407.0232e768@dogwood.cisco.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Stuart Brady On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:31:24PM -0500, Joseph Marcel wrote: > I never considered the possibility that Cygwin could be unappreciated. > Though, I'm sure the authors can get quite harried at times. Cygwin is certainly great to have on my own boxes. > Suffice to say, "Cygwin rocks!" I have it on all my Windows machines, > and constantly develop Unix-like scripts and utilities. At work, we > use it to create a "seamlessly" portable environment. And, these are > just a few of the simple things Cygwin can do ... ;-) > Just starting to play with the X stuff ... it's great! Indeed! I'd love to see Cygwin at uni, although I'm not sure whether I can present an argument for its installation just yet. What I'm worried about is the security and maintainability of a Cygwin installation. (Even then, I don't know whether they'd consider my request.) I remember reading on several occasions that a Cygwin process can be tricked into running arbitrary code by another user. I realise that there is only a limited amount of time that can be spent on the development of Cygwin, but I'd be happy to know whether anybody has any plans to work on this, or if it even matters in this case. But none of this detracts from the brilliance of Cygwin; I'm still quite amazed that Cygwin is even possible on win95! (I dread to think of just how kludgey some of the code would have to be, though... :) ) My thanks to all of the developers and maintainers who have made Cygwin so great. -- Stuart Brady -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/